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Dreamliner makes emergency landing

An All Nippon Airways flight made an emergency landing today in western Japan after a cockpit message showed battery problems, the latest trouble for the Boeing 787 “Dreamliner.” The flight to Tokyo from Ube landed at the Takamatsu airport, where NTV television reported passengers used emergency slides to exit the jet. The airport temporarily closed and the transport ministry said all the Boeing 787s in Japan – the first country to adopt the craft – were being grounded for safety checks. ANA operates 17 of the jets and Japan Airlines has seven. The grounding was done voluntarily by the airlines. The U.S. government is conducting a review to find out what caused a recent fire, a fuel leak and other worrisome incidents with Boeing's newest and most advanced airliner.

Pakistani soldier dies in Kashmir

Pakistan blamed Indian troops for killing one of its soldiers along the disputed Kashmir border, the latest in a series of attacks that threaten to ratchet up tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors. In New Delhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said relations with Pakistan “cannot be business as usual.” In Islamabad, the Pakistan military said Indian troops fired at a Pakistani army post across the so-called Line of Control that divides the Himalayan region. Two other Pakistani soldiers and two Indian soldiers have been killed in the past 10 days in the region's worst bout of fighting in nearly 10 years. India and Pakistan have fought three wars since they were carved out of British India in 1947 — two of them over Kashmir.

Chavez no. 2 speaks on his behalf

Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro took the place of ailing President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday by delivering a short speech and turning in a state-of-the-nation report amid legal debate about his legitimacy. Maduro submitted the report in writing from Chavez's government while the president remained in Cuba undergoing treatment after his fourth cancer-related surgery. Opposition politicians argued that the speech should have been postponed because the president is supposed to deliver it, and about a dozen walked out.

Iraq: Sunni lawmaker killed in bombing

A suicide bomber assassinated a Sunni lawmaker in western Iraq on Tuesday, killing seven people in a part of the country that has been roiled by weeks of demonstrations. While it was unclear who carried out the attack, the killing is likely to further strain relations between the central government and minority Sunnis who have been demanding reforms to policies they believe unfairly target their sect. Suicide bombings are frequently the work of Sunni extremists, such as al-Qaida, who seek to exacerbate Iraq's sectarian divide. Lawmaker Ifan Saadoun al-Issawi was reported killed on his way to join an anti-government protest when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Fallujah.

U.S. condemns

Morsi comments

The Obama administration on Tuesday gave a blistering review of remarks that Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi made almost three years ago about Jews and called for him to repudiate what it called unacceptable rhetoric. The White House and State Department said Morsi's statements were “deeply offensive.” Morsi was a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood in 2010 when, according to video broadcast last week, he asked Egyptians to “nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred.” Months later, in a TV interview, Morsi referred to Zionists as bloodsuckers who attack Palestinians, and as “the descendants of apes and pigs.”

Cuba acknowledges 51 cholera cases

Cuba's Public Health Ministry on Tuesday acknowledged 51 new cases of cholera in the capital amid growing concerns about the illness' spread. The ministry said nobody had died from the outbreak, which began Jan. 6, and stressed that preventive measures already taken had put the disease “on the way to extinction.” It said cholera was first detected in the capital's Cerro neighborhood, and then spread elsewhere.

Chile launches new base in Antarctica

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera flew to Antarctica to plant his country's flag and unveiled a plaque at the site of a new research station. Once constructed, the base will be run by Chile's air force. The Chilean army and navy also have bases on the continent, where the South American nation's Antarctic claims overlap with those of Argentina and Britain. Today's visit was Pinera's third trip to Antarctica.

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